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My first Miss Marple. Yes some language is outdated but the story holds up #onetogo

Next Kindle read . . . A bit of Agatha #2moretogo

I really enjoy the Agatha Christie novels because they give an interesting glimpse of the past. I would have enjoyed to be a dancer at a hotel playing bridge with the guests. Hopefully I would have not ended as a dead body in the library - but one sitting wrapped up cozily in a comfortable armchair in the library.

This is a fun little Poirot short (the actual book includes several other short stories, but they aren't particularly Christmasy, so I only read the title story this time around). Poirot reluctantly heads off to a country estate for an “old-fashioned Christmas“ - and a bit of undercover sleuthing. Poirot is very Poiroty in this one, and I quite enjoyed rereading it.

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks

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Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView! 🥰

1. Hmm. Living in Phoenix my whole life, I wonder what I would pick ... 🤔 ... the absolute coldest wintry cabin high in the mountains of course! ❄️
2. I love winter mysteries usually at big estates, for some reason... like the short story I tagged with good ol' Hercule Poirot.

All are invited to play.

Given the on-going Canada Post strike I have had the #jolabokaflodswap package sent directly via Amazon to my match. Takes away some of the fun, but they are on their way! (And should be in gift bags.) Christmas baking prep picture for interest.
@MaleficentBookDragon

Interesting experience listening to a Miss Marple mystery, in audio only format. In some ways the bits that are frustrating are more so, when a character is designed to be insufferable, he is now insufferable with an English accent that makes him sound like a person with a blocked nose that needs to sneeze. When the old man is being callous or the elder brother is being smarmy, I feel like it takes an age to get past the moment of unpleasantness.

I loved the ridiculous amount of coincidences in this mystery 😅 Still so good, and great characters that I liked getting to know. Miss Marple as always so clever
#SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

I'm glad for Miss Marple's having a larger and more immediate role in this twisty mystery, because all the other characters were varying shades of irritating and unpleasant, the epilogue doesn't really make up for a good bit of the behaviour seen before hand. Nastyness and pettiness and apathy, and that's before you add in some very old attitudes and prejudices. 1/2

Originally this quote derives from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It is said that Agatha Christie took the title from this poem.